English Flashcards

Question

Mawkish

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Excessively sentimental

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One's seemingly indifferent or unaffected by joy, grief, pleasure, or pain, impassive

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Easily intelligible; clear

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To make a quick, evasive turn

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Zestful, enthusiasm

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Small dish used for baking & serving

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To attach as false or questionable, challenge in argument

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A servile self seeks who tries to win favors by flattering; influential people

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Favoritism shown or patronage, granted to relatives, as in business

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Lack of self-confidence; shy, it is | Reserved in manner

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Discourteously blunt; court, abrupt in manner or speech

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Sourness or acid news of taste, character, or love

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Capable of fling or moving about rapidly

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To consent or comply passively or w/out protest

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Waste or impure waste

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Situated at, located close to or directly toward back; reverse, backward

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Inclined to keep one's thoughts, feelings, and personal affairs to one's self, reluctant, reserved in style; unwilling

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unjustifiably, recklessly

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Humbly; w/ remove & regret

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Plainly, in a new way that is understood

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Processing of exhibits great wealth; rich abundance, luxuriant characteristic

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A group or band of people

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Fully, to a total extent

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Politely, of proper manners

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W/out question or doubt

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Mentally incompetent

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A misunderstanding

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Like a servant; obediently

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Mysteriously in an incomprehensible way

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Pretentious, to boast, to brag

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Next to last

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To annoy or bother or bring to distress

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The real azure of a thing; the essence

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To coax by flattery

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Back part of head & skull

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Weak, insipid, or sentimental

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Having a calm, sluggish term permanent, unemotional

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A word, mood or form to express command

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Pompous or pretentious

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Lack of authenticity, not genuine, false

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Quality of being calm & even-tempered, composure

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Likely to spring back to original thickness after being compressed (elastic-like)

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Rudely bold, insolent & having a harsh and loud sound

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Eyeglasses clipped to the nose by a spring

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Dull, unimaginative; everyday, ordinary

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Infer from a general principle

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Exclude, hinder or to obstruct

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Stubbornly resistance to authority

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An empty show, mockery

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Artificial passage for H20 fit with a valve to make even flow

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Very small amount, 9th letter of Greek alphabet

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A sacred formula used as prayer or incantation

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Intensely emotional

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A constructor of crosswords; an enthusiast of word games

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State of inactivity; state of unconsciousness,s, resemble deep sleep

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Active/occur at day NOT night; relate or occur w/in 24 hour period

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An upward bending of leaves or other plants; results from growth or lower side

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To hatch eggs; to think or worry anxiously

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A small amount

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Permanently attached or fixed NOT free moving

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Insincere, not straight-forward; pretend to be unaware; unsophisticated; faxu-Naif

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Quickness, accuracy or keenness of judgement or insight

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Condescendingly proud

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Keenly distressing to the mind or feelings, affecting

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Student admitted into a college or university

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A novel of curtail persons, placed, or events to depict in fictional guise

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Arrested in growth/development

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Deliberate deceptive as in behavior or speech

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Extremely steep or an overhanging cliff

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Belonging to simple nature of a thing; inherent

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Ability of fibers to mat together

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Resistance to crushing (fabric/material)

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Ability of a fiber to transfer moisture along its surface

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Ability of a fiber or yarn to let light pass through the structure

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Describe yarn or fiber size and is defined as weight for 9000 meters of fiber

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Having or revealing little emotion, sensitlibyt; impassive

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Of or relating to love of children

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Forceful, effective & vigorous

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Resistance to stress, strain, to which a fiber is exposed to

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Conclusively, w/out condition

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Excessively sparing or frugal

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To swell, expand, or enlarge; to bubble up from heat

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Easily bent, flexed or modified to fit conditions

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Have short, stalking physique

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Warm & comfy; homey; folksy

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Kept or done in secret

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No imagination, spirit; dull

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Mark by great passion or zeal; extremely hot

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Doing of evil or harm, mischief, harmful or evil nature/quality

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Small cup to serve coffee

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Deceptively attractive

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Carefree and light-hearted

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To agree to a proposal

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A very small amount

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Having no errors

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Extreme distress or discomposure

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1. Courageously noble in mind | 2. Forgiving, eschewing resentment or revenge, unselfish

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A trick, deception by trickery

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Dishonorably; w/ disgrace

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Passing away quickly, evanescent, withering or drop off early

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Of a wife, regarded as befitting a wife

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Vigor, vivacity

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The quality f appearing to be true/real, something has appearance of being true

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Present or potential but not evident

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Generally regarded as such

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Able to hold a large #, spacious, or roomy

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Shaped like a kidney

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Deep, extensive learning

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To stimulate/sharpen

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Real, authentic, genuine

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Truthfulness

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Annoyance, irrititatoni on

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Elegant, refined

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Appear true or real

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Not false, genuine

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Wide-spread

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To use harsh language, abuse

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Having an insatiable appetite for an activity, ravenous

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To decrease in value

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Extremely harmful or poisonous

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Sway (waiver) opinion one side to the other

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Able to be bought/bribed

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Fierce, eager to fight

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To publicly praise or promote

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Passionate, hurried

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Dormant, slug, lethargic

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Flatter, 'yes-man/ma'am

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Timid, fearful

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Cheap, tacky, indecent

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Brief, cons ice in working

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Not talkative, silent

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Combo of parts to make a whole

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Overindulgence; to increase feed or Supply excess

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Someone tried please for own's gain

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Asking humbly

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Indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure of pain, steadfast

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Lacking authenticity or validity; false counterfeit

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Characterized by filth, grime or squalor.

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Seeming true but actually false, misleadingly attractive

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Exhibiting immaturity, lack of judgement, pretentious

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Inactive, submissive

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Arrogant, haughty

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Brief, concise

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Calm, impressive

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To smirk, to say something w/ a silly, coy smile

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Position requiring little or no work & usually providing an income

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Remedial, wholesome, cause improvement

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Self-righteousness, pretended,

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Appealing to or causing sexual desire

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Having sound judgment, perceptive wise

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To stop flow of a fluid; static

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One spends waste fully

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Marked by feeling or expressing a feeling of profound awe & respect

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To refuse to have anything to do w/ wisdom

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To fail to honor a commitment, go back on a promise

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To forcibly assign, esp. To a lower place or position

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Fragrant, suggestive or evocative

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To engage in reconnaissance, make a preliminary inspection of

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Dull, soaked

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Curving devious

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Persistent, diligent, hard-working

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Gloomy, dark, morose

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Despicable

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Hidden , concealed difficult to understand, obscure

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Obstinately defiant of authority or guidance, difficulty to manage

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Riddle, a representation of words by pictures or symbols that sound like words

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Voracious greedy, plundering

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Characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment

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Re/occurring daily commonplace

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To overindulge, satisfy to excess

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Cheerful, optimistic, confident

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Promoting health

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Prominent, highly relevant

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Hilarious, provoke laughter

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Characterized by a strong,s harp smell or taste, penetrating to the point

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An authority on a subject, one who gives opinions

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A natural inclination or tendency

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Nearness in Time or place, affinity or nature, kinship

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Abundant in size, force, or extent, extraordinary

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Long for, to feel discontent

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Pierced by a sound

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To protest/object

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To delight, feast, entertain

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To disapprove, successfully argue against

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Learning, resting, prone

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Worthy of honor, awe-inspiring

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Recklessly wasteful, profuse lavish, extravagant

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To deliberately avoid the truth, mislead

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Acting w/ excessive haste or impulsive

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A superficial or trite remark, esp. One offered as meaningful

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To become thin, refine, less dense

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To complain, bitterly

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Branch out, to sub/divide

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Quality of being motionless, at rest

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Quarrelsome

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Causes for hesitancy

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Lose courage

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Agreeably pungent, Spicy, stimulating

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To yearn intensely, to languish , to lose vigor

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Admitting of no contradiction, put an end to further debate

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Common place, trite, unremarkable

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Smoothing regarded as a model of excellence or perfection in some way

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Cowardly, craven

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Frugal, looking into the future

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Childish, immature

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Belligerent

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To outlaw/prohibit

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Favorable, auspicious

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Contraction; a seemingly self-contradictory statement that seems true nonetheless

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Something serves as a model

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To make something appear less serious

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Gesture identity deference (I.e. Bow)

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Extravagant

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Highly wasteful, recklessly extravagant

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Pure, clean, uncorrupted

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Preference

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Baffled in a quandary at at loss for what to say, do or think

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A new word, expression or usage the creation or use of new words

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Vague, cloudy, lacking clearly defined form

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Coming into being, in early development stages

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To calm or soother, reduce in emotional intensity

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Chatter, babble

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Practical not idealistic

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Not rigid, mold able

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Baffled in a quandary at at loss for what to say, do or think

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To have weight or beefing on to argue (against)

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Characterized by rapid and unpredictable change in mood

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An independent individual who does not go along w/ a group or party

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Having or showing, often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred

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To use or reproduce illegally

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To punish, hold up to public scorn

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Involving clever adventures or rogues

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Speak affectedly or too carefully, take tiny steps, to tip-toe

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To have weight or bearing, to guess against

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Characterized by rapid & unpredictable change in mood

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The quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, esp. In forgiving

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To move heavily & clumsily or w/ a rumbling sound

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Incapable of being discovered or understood, mysterious

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Begin become into being

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Benevolent, humanitarian

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Acutely, perceptive

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Done without care or interest

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To attribute to a cause or source

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Not capable of being appeased or significantly change

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Marked by extreme calm

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Commanding, masterful, arrogant

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One who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions

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Given to intense or excessive devotion to something

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Evade or ward off

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Unimaginative

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Formal expression or praise

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Song of thanksgiving

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An exaggerated statement, often used as a figure of speech

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Rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage

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To act in a way of hinder, exclude, or preventive action

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To wade across the shallow part of a river or stream

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Appearing as such

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Troubling, burdensome

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Make unnecessary

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Disgrace, contempt, scorn

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Hateful, increase strong feelings of hate

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Hidden, concealed

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Noisy, loudly stubborn

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Intentional obstruction, use long speech to delay legislative action

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An invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief

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Discuss or write about at length, to range freely

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To make confused

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Harmful, injurious

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Cure-all, placebo

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To sue ambiguous language w/ a deceptive intent

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Mysterious, obscure, difficulty to understand

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Related to people in particular region

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Greatly diversified

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One how hate women

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One who hates people

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Menacing, threatening

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Glowing and enthusiastic praise

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Soothing esp to the skiing, making less harsh

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The ability to make an intended result

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The quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts & feelings

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Arrogantly assertive of principles which often cannot be provided, stubbornly opinionated.

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Condition of being dishonest

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Mutter, talk aimlessly

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One w/ an amateurish or superficial interest in arts and branch of knowledge

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Start from the point, go off on a tangent

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Outcome or a solution; the unraveling of a plot

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Politeness or appropriateness of conduct or behavior

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Serene, clear, and simple

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Extremely talkative

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Use few words, terse

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Show sorrow, cause tears

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An attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness

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A substance that accelerates rate of a chemical reaction w/out itself changing, a person or thing that causes change

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The relationship between cause & effect

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To agree with

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Childish, uninteresting

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Easily angered, outbursts

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To attach verbally denounce | To obtain by deception

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To flood, to overwhelm

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Inclined to change one's mind, impulsively, erratic, unpredictable

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To give a false impression of, to misrepresent

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Stubborn, obstinate

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Steadfast, courageous

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Refusing to compromise

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Without taste or flavor, dull

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Narrow minded

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To ban, prohibit

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An universally recognized principle, a generally accepted or coming saying

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Severity, rigor; roughness, harshness

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An expression or approval or praise

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Harmless, cause no damage

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Certain, inevitable

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Lazy, listless, torpid

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Deviation from the normal order, forum, or rule; abnormality

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Something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context

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The quality of having opposing ideas or feelings

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To censure

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Shamelessly bold

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Not capable of change

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Difficult/embarrassing situations

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Shameful, disgraceful

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To increase in intensity, power or prestige to make appear greater

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Arrogant pride

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To create stress

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Trickery, cunning | Naive, free from guilt

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To complain or grumble

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Nonchalant, superficial, lack in depth

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Relevant to subject at hand

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Talking too much

Answer 330

Crude, awkward, tasteless

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Not yield, stubbornly disobedient

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Rebellious, unruly

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Happening by chance

Answer 334

Patience, willingness to wait

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Flushed w/ hue, ornate

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To have a bad smell

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Zealous, highly emotional

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Irresponsible, ineffectual

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To flatter, praise excessively

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To destroy, cut out

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Done w/out prep'; improvised

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Existing, not destroyed or lost

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Purify, to remove obscenity

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To clear of blame, exonerate

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Very learned, scholarly

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Level, undisturbed

Answer 347

Enlightening, informative

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Presumptuousness, extreme boldness

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Absent-mindedness, distracted

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Lack of harmony; conflict

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Distinct or dissimilar

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Conflicting

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A long sustained noise

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Shy, lack of self-confidence

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Causing delay, procrastinate

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Intended to teach/instruct

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Scorn, ridicule

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To question or oppose

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Hoodwink to deceive

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To approve or tolerate

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Correctable, repairable

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Regretful, seeking forgiveness

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Argumentative

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Convincing

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An illusion

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Causing corrosion

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Severe criticism or punishment

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Primary of basic importance

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To polish, rub, to shine

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To grow rapidly to flourish

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Tolerate, endure

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Pompous,grandiloquent

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Carefree, Merry

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To coax w/ flattery

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To confirm, state of fact

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Greed, especially for wealth

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Severely simple w/out adornment, bare

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Favorable, successful, prosperous

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Protection or support

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Majestic, venerable

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Diligent, hard-working

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Mysterious, esoteric

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Strenuous, lost of effort neede

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Complex, ornate design

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Zenith, high established point

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Lack of interest or feeling

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To make better or more tolerable

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A magical transformation

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Uncertainty in meaning

Answer 390

Quick, keen, accurate insight

Answer 391

Have a sour/bitter taste

Answer 392

Growth, building up

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To steal off and hide

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Cut off, removing act

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Put down; to abolish

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Deviating from the norm